Team Aster vs Aster.Aries Prediction: Battle of the Fathers vs Sons

On Tuesday, June 07, the first game week of the third round of the regional DPC Dota 2 league in China will begin. Teams from the same organization, Team Aster and Aster.Aries, will kick off the first game day.

DPC CN 2021/2022 Tour 3: Division I is an online Dota 2 tournament that will run from June 07 to July 15, 2022. The top eight teams from the China region will be competing for $205,000. Aside from the cash prizes, the teams will also fight for four entries to the majors and the crucial DPC points needed to qualify for T11.

It's hard to judge the Chinese teams because, so far, they don't have much motivation. The giants will already go to TI11 (if they are released from the country), and there are not so many prospects for the majors. Do I believe we'll see Chinese teams at the August majors in the US? It's unlikely... Even if they are released from the country, risking the prospect of going to TI11 in Singapore, which is only two months away, for the sake of the majors... You understand. Hence the question, is it worth trying so hard in the summer tour of the regional league? DPC points are more than enough for anyone, given that there are now thirty teams going to the main tournament of the year.

Team Aster had a mixed spring tour, especially against their January successes. The team clawed out second place in the first DPC league. In the replay, the team defeated the resistance of the RNG team. Then the boys reinforced the result with a championship at the Intel World Open Beijing, which wasn't an incredible sensation, but the result was still unexpected. After the Chinese New Year, the players began to perform at a relaxed pace. A very poor showing in the DPC regional finals (3rd place out of 4), then not reaching the finals of the OGA Dota PIT Season 6: China (3rd place). All that doesn't change the main point - Team Aster remains one of the main favorites to start the third round of the 2021/22 season, especially in the second regional final.

Team Aster is one of China's youngest teams, formed in late 2018 and already top of their region. Last season was a mixed bag for the boys. If you judge their results within the Chinese region, they are very cool:

Vice-champions of the first DPC league

Champions of the second DPC league

Champions of two seasons of i-League 2021

Not even PSG.LGD can boast such results in China, but on the international scene, Aster played just awful: only 9-12 places in the two majors in Singapore and Kyiv, an unsatisfactory result at TI10 as well - 13-16 place. You can look for excuses, they did not perform in the full squad in Singapore, and at TI10, the whole team suffered from coronavirus, but the fact is that no one makes concessions to the top Chinese team.

Something had to be done, and the organization's bosses made two substitutions in the squad. Ori, who moved from Vici Gaming, will play in position two, and Siamese.C, who spent the last season in the Aster.Aries youth team arrived in the five position.

Aster.Aries is the junior team of Team Aster that participates in various tier-3 tournaments in China. They regularly compete in the second division of the Chinese DPC league and won the vice-champion title at the end of their second tournament, eliminating them from the elite division.

In general, Aster's club vertical is exemplary. Youth squads are commonplace for Chinese teams, but Aster is the most successful youth team in the world. Firstly, they got into the elite, where they will get crucial match experience with the region's strongest teams and the world in general. Secondly, they have already started to supply players to the main team. After TI10, Siamese.C has been promoted to the main team and has become a worthy replacement for RedPanda, who, having been kicked out of the main team, will fight for a place on the inter.

Is it possible to see this team at TI11? It depends on their performance now, and, after all, they have at least a chance of not being ejected. I wouldn't write them off at once because there are several young teams in the elite in the famous tags, and if you consider the weak motivation of the big teams - the season can be successful for Aster.Aries.

The start of the season, motivated youngsters and clearly relaxed favorites, plus Team Aster's love for draft experiments, inclines me to bet on Total Over 2.5 maps for 2.62.

Who believes in Aster.Aries' ability to get the minimum one map, you can consider their handicap (+1.5) for 2.57.

And the correct score of 2-1 in favor of Team Aster can be caught for an awesome 3.60.

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